Measurements of wavelength-dependent double photoelectron emission from single photons in VUV-sensitive photomultiplier tubes

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Faham, C H ^a   Gehman, V M ^a   Currie, A ^a,b   Dobi, A ^a   Sorensen, P ^a   Gaitskell, R J ^c  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Noble liquid detectors (scintillation, ionization, double phase); Photon detectors for UV, visible and IR photons (vacuum) (photomultipliers, HPDs, others); Time projection Chambers (TPC)

Indexed keywords

IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTONS; SCINTILLATION;

MEASUREMENT METHODS; NOBLE LIQUIDS; PHOTO MULTIPLIER TUBE; PHOTO MULTIPLIER TUBE (PMTS); PHOTO-ELECTRON EMISSION; PHOTON DETECTOR; TIME PROJECTION CHAMBERS; XENON SCINTILLATION;

PHOTOIONIZATION;

EID: 84947261417     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/10/09/P09010     Document Type: Article

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